RAW SIXTH FROM THE MANICS

Manic Street Preachers are in the studio recording the follow-up to ‘THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS’, nme.com can reveal.

The band have been holed up in Wales’ Rockfield Studios for the past few weeks demoing tracks and writing songs for their next album, which will be their sixth and is due for release next year.

Sources close to the band told nme.com that the new material is definitely more in tune with their punkier last single ‘Masses Against The Classes’ than the more lush orchestral sound of their last two albums.

The band said at the end of last year that they would take a year off playing live and focus their energies on the new record.

At the press conference before their triumphant Manic Millennium gig on New Year’s Eve, lead singer James Dean Bradfield said: “We want to concentrate on making the best album we can possibly make” and give fans a record that “wasn’t shit”.